Please bring a Scantron form 882. The exam will be composed of modified
"fill in the blanks" format questions. This exam will also ask
you to identify sections from particular speeches you have read or seen.There will be an optional essay question in which you may explain which
new critique of a speech you thought was most stimulating and why. There
are no questions on usage and grammar.

Study Guide for 301 Final Exam for Spring 2001

The exam will be composed of modified "fill in the
blanks" format questions.

The final exam is comprehensive and includes material from
the first part of the class. The following matters are new items to study for
the final exam.

In what are the major concepts and predictions derived from

Social judgment-involvement theory
(including the concept of
ego-involvement)?

--according to this theory, how are highly ego-involved people
persuaded?

The elaboration likelihood model?

--what type of message is most persuasive on each pathway to
influence?

Constructivism

Functional perspective on group
decision making

McLuhan’s technological
determinism

Agenda setting theory

Coordinated management of meaning

Expectancy violations theory

Anxiety-Uncertainty reduction
theory

Speech Codes theory

Genderlect Styles

What are Cialdini’s influence strategies?

What advantages may groups have over individual problem
solving?

What are the dimensions of credibility and how may one
increase credibility?

What are the major methods used to inspire people during
crises (such as illustrated by Churchill and Roosevelt)?

What are the major elements of the theories presented in
class reports?

What are the major categories of nonverbal communication
and what are their influences on communication?

What are the differences between verbal and factual
disputes?

What are the forms of gestures that show variability across
cultures?

What are the alternative forms of ethics covered in the
reading?

Be prepared to identify quotations from speeches we read
and saw.

Here are the questions from the Midterm Study Guide

What are liberal studies?

What were the major contributions made by Aristotle, Plato,
Cicero, Quintilian, Augustine, and Bacon?

What were the major themes of the study of communication in
the classical, medieval, and Renaissance periods?

What is communication?

What are the elements of Berlo's SMCR model?

What are the forms of disconfirming communication
behaviors?

What are the differences between the approaches taken by
scholars who examine communication from a humanist and scientific point of view?

What are the canons of rhetoric in neo-Aristotelian
criticism?

What are the elements of the Burkean pentad?

What are meant by stylistic or linguistic criticism, genre
criticism, and fantasy theme analysis?

In the history of communication described by Griffin, what
were the major emphases in each time period of the twentieth century?

What are the standards of ethics described in the textbook
and mentioned in class?

In Bormann's symbolic convergence theory what are the
requirements for good objective theory and good interpretive theory?

What is meant by Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

What are values?

What are the methods of apologetic rhetoric?

What are the elements and criticisms of uncertainty
reduction theory?

What are the assumptions of the communication styles
approach?

What are the habits of people with different communication
styles?

How may one identify values in others' speech?

What are the steps involved in preparing effective speeches
(the 10 commandments)?

What are some bad listening habits that people have?

What are the elements that can contribute to improved
listening abilitites?